Sentences with phrase «school discipline policies like»

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Many schools are still focused primarily on punitive discipline policies, like «zero - tolerance,» which rely on suspending and expelling students for disruptive behavior.

«It's time they be held accountable for their enrollment, discipline and special education policies like every public school is.»

Working with HGSE students, she has developed case studies focusing on particular dilemmas of justice in schools and school districts like ethics of grade inflation, eighth - grade promotion and retention policies, lottery - based school assignment, disciplining socially fragile children, and teacher firings.

Some of these are the same people who have made once - esoteric educational questions — like school discipline, collegiate Title IX policies governing due process, school choice, teacher evaluation, and determination of testing subgroups — into hero's journeys defined by bitter battles between those fighting «for the kids» (their side) and the forces of malice (the other side).

While discipline measures like suspensions are intended to enforce school rules and improve student behavior, the negative outcomes of such policies should give us pause.

This shift in discipline policy would eliminate or reduce more traditional punitive practices like suspension currently adopted by many schools to a restorative justice model that would employ techniques such as peer mediation, student justice pane...

This shift in discipline policy would eliminate or reduce more traditional punitive practices like suspension currently adopted by many schools to a restorative justice model that would employ techniques such as peer mediation, student justice panels, and «give back» resolutions to change student behavior.

Dec. 12: The NYC Coalition for Educational Justice will host a Parent Power School event to explore the impact of race on education policy issues like school funding, standardized testing and school disciSchool event to explore the impact of race on education policy issues like school funding, standardized testing and school discischool funding, standardized testing and school discischool discipline.

SCHOOL DISCIPLINE SUMMIT SPARKS TRANSPARENCY CONCERNS: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos today will hear from supporters and opponents of Obama - era guidance aimed at curbing racial disparities in school discipline and the overuse of harsh policies, like out - of - school suspensions, expulsions and school - based arrests for nonviolent offSCHOOL DISCIPLINE SUMMIT SPARKS TRANSPARENCY CONCERNS: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos today will hear from supporters and opponents of Obama - era guidance aimed at curbing racial disparities in school discipline and the overuse of harsh policies, like out - of - school suspensions, expulsions and school - based arrests for nonviolentDISCIPLINE SUMMIT SPARKS TRANSPARENCY CONCERNS: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos today will hear from supporters and opponents of Obama - era guidance aimed at curbing racial disparities in school discipline and the overuse of harsh policies, like out - of - school suspensions, expulsions and school - based arrests for nonviolent offschool discipline and the overuse of harsh policies, like out - of - school suspensions, expulsions and school - based arrests for nonviolentdiscipline and the overuse of harsh policies, like out - of - school suspensions, expulsions and school - based arrests for nonviolent offschool suspensions, expulsions and school - based arrests for nonviolent offschool - based arrests for nonviolent offenses.

NEW YORK CITY - Dec. 12: The NYC Coalition for Educational Justice will host a Parent Power School event to explore the impact of race on education policy issues like school funding, standardized testing and school disciSchool event to explore the impact of race on education policy issues like school funding, standardized testing and school discischool funding, standardized testing and school discischool discipline.

Dec. 12: The Coalition for Educational Justice will host a Parent Power School event to explore the impact of race on education policy issues like school funding, standardized testing and school disciSchool event to explore the impact of race on education policy issues like school funding, standardized testing and school discischool funding, standardized testing and school discischool discipline.

When hit with a class - action lawsuit over its discipline policies, Marcovitz said he and his team saw it as yet another moment to adjust their model, which now features «schools within schools» to address the needs of students with behavior issues, for example, with services like garden and music therapy.

Unfortunately, every day millions of children in the United States attend dilapidated public schools with overcrowded classrooms, outdated textbooks and materials, harsh discipline policies and limited access to quality teaching and wraparound supports like school nurses, college counselors and afterschool programs.

Like most large school districts in the United States, discipline policies in Broward reflected the idea that the best way to maintain an orderly classroom is to get rid of disruptive students, an approach known as zero tolerance.

Additionally, charters around the country have established rigid discipline policies that charge monetary fines to students for even minor infractions like chewing gum, and give the schools leeway to push out — through suspensions and expulsions — large numbers of students.

The highest - scoring schools are more middle - class schools, and schools like those in the Noble network, whose discipline policy is perfectly designed to weed out less «wanted» students.

For example, were the classroom programs in the analysis coupled with broader changes to school policy, like less punitive approaches to discipline?

In states like California where zero - tolerance discipline policies are enforced, they've been handing out more suspensions than diplomas every year.2 And students are not being suspended for school safety issues; on the contrary, close to half of the suspensions were for «willful defiance,» which can include things like disrespectful behavior or dress code violations.